Guideline for coding organ donation after death: Difference between revisions

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* I had one patient where they withdrew care in the unit then went directly to the OR to harvest the organs.  What do we do in  this case?--[[User:LKolesar|LKolesar]] 08:03, 2019 June 5 (CDT)}}
* I had one patient where they withdrew care in the unit then went directly to the OR to harvest the organs.  What do we do in  this case?--[[User:LKolesar|LKolesar]] 08:03, 2019 June 5 (CDT)
*AG REPLY -- then DO code the death in the ICU with the time being the actual time of death and the dispo as '''Death - to OR'''}}


=== MAID ===
=== MAID ===
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  What are the instructions for this? Would they go through the exercise of declaring such a patient's [[Brain death]] or would we capture them as [[Acquired Diagnosis]] [[MAID]] and [[Dispo]] "Death - to OR" or more problematically "Death - to other ICU" ?  }}
  What are the instructions for this? Would they go through the exercise of declaring such a patient's [[Brain death]] or would we capture them as [[Acquired Diagnosis]] [[MAID]] and [[Dispo]] "Death - to OR" or more problematically "Death - to other ICU" ?  
*AG REPLY: if a MAID patient who dies in ICU becomes a (planned) donor, then the dispo is '''Death - to OR''', i.e. no need to bring up brain death.  If MAID is provided in the OR, then handle this like DCD (see above) BUT also do list the ICD10 code for MAID as an acquired dx in ICU }}


== How they are treated in linking ==
== How they are treated in linking ==